Japan, Bitcoin & the New Currency War | What Changed This Week? | SDHT LIVE (Part One)
Hey hey sovereign wealth builders,
In my view, we are entering the next stage of an internal Bitcoin "civil war" between corporate centralising forces and sovereign node operators. As of today, miner signaling for BIP 110 sits at just 2.6%, but tomorrow we must reach a 55% threshold to ensure an uninterrupted, peaceful activation path. If we remain below this threshold, the miners will have rejected the rules of the nodes, and we could enter a contentious split scenario where exchanges pause trading, transaction confirmations are delayed, and Lightning Network channels face disruption.
Alongside this protocol battle, we are tracking the major hardware wallet exploit unique to Cold Card. If you hold funds on a Cold Card wallet, you need to move your funds immediately to a secure environment, as the wallet drains are actively continuing.
In my view, the timing of this exploit—just days before this critical node-signaling weekend—is highly suspicious and may be a coordinated campaign designed to discourage self-custody and drive users back into Wall Street's institutional custody vaults.
This critical protocol struggle is happening against the backdrop of a massive macro transition where traditional financial plumbing is buckling under its own debt. The 10-year US Treasury has pushed deeper into the danger zone at 4.67%, while the 30-year bond has reached 5.24%.
In my view, we are entering a phase of fiscal dominance where the cost of refinancing sovereign debt is ballooning out of control, squeezing citizens while stock markets are propped up near all-time highs by managed liquidity flows. We are watching a highly coordinated, managed transition of the global monetary order.
In today’s livestream, we will break down exactly how these macro developments intersect with your personal financial sovereignty.
PART ONE: Japan, Bitcoin & the New Currency War | What Changed This Week?
This week, the Bank of Japan’s move toward increasing interest rates sent shockwaves through the global financial architecture, putting severe stress on the historic Japan carry trade. For decades, cheap yen has provided critical liquidity to prop up Western equity markets. In what I believe is a highly unusual maneuver to protect the US Treasury market, authorities reportedly intervened by selling Euros to buy Yen—avoiding direct dollar weakness while putting selling pressure on European bondholders. At the same time, the petrodollar continues its quiet unwind, marked by Saudi Arabia’s new 43-country maritime defense coalition and Iran’s draft proposals to settle oil in Yuan or Bitcoin.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin's custody battle is intensifying. Following the Cold Card exploit, I believe there is an active, coordinated push by the Financial Industrial Complex (FIC) to discourage self-custody and drive users into Wall Street’s institutional vaults. We see the largest corporate Bitcoin holders speaking out against BIP 110, asking node operators to stand down. They want you to put your Bitcoin in a public company so they can issue you a security, and then BlackRock wants to tokenize it so you will "own nothing and be happy".
In today’s livestream, we will break down the game theory behind tomorrow’s BIP 110 threshold, what a potential chain split means for your assets, and why running your own node remains our ultimate tool of resistance against corporate capture.
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